After Adam and Eve had Cain and Abel, wouldn't the rest of humanity have to come from incest of those four? Also how do you account for all of the different races we have today?
2007-09-26 13:01:37 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The problem with your question... "Christians, if your argument is sound maybe I will convert!? "
Implies that we as believers have the ability to "cause your conversion".
Many non-believers think that it is the believers that are doing the converting. And nothing could be further from THE FACT!
We as believers only "tell the story" or "plant the seed" or "spread the Gospel (truth)"
It is God Himself that does the actual conversion! It is by His Grace that we are saved, not by our works.
We here at Y!A can tell you the story all day, but that will not affect your salvation until God causes the conversion to happen, and the Holy Spirit indwells inside of you! We as mere worthless mortals can do nothing for you but pass the Word on to you, and after God "converts (re-generates) you, then we can help you understand what has happened, and what to do from there.
I know I will not be picked as the best answer, for two reasons...
#1. Because Satan dislikes folks like me that tell the truth, and try to shatter the heresies that the modern day church has spread through their watered down, gospel of prosperity and hypocrisy. Jesus was poor, He loved the poor, and wanted His people to be poor, meek, and help the helpless. He did not want us to be rich, beg for money to support the church, and run around in Limo's, Lear Jets, Rolexes, and Versace, whilst on TBN and other Christian TV programs preaching how to get rich, and hate the gays.
#2. It will be my fellow Christians that will "thumbs down" my answer, not the Atheists. The amount of thumbs down, and other comments will lead you to believe that I am some whack-job that is a renegade Christian who has taken a stand agaist my fellow believers, and should not be given the time of day.
If chosen, it will be because you have read this, have agreed with what I am saying that many of my fellow Christians are a fraud, and haters of Christ Himself by how they act in His name.
It will be then, when you have chosen this answer that God will have spoken to you, and the process of re-generation will have begun. You will see that the Christian masses are what many say, but somehow there seems to be a small renegade group who agree with the Atheists, that the current incarnation of the New Testament Church has turned into a racist, hateful, money-grubbing pack of wolves, and this small renegade group refuses to allow God's Holy name to be dragged through the mud by the very people that claim to serve Him...
When you are through reading this, look up at the ceiling above you and ask... "Is this guy for real?"
I assure you, listen carefully, and quietly, and you will hear an answer....
2007-09-26 13:48:59 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
Are you basing your decision to convert on a single answer? If you want to convert, why not just convert, and then search your heart for the answer that God might give to you?
To answer your question, "wouldn't the rest of humanity have to come from incest...?" The way you pose the question, it does. There is more to the beginning of mankind than is accounted for in your question. Who is to say that God didn't make more men? The scripture says, "and we made man in our likeness...," and Adam was the first. Like many stories, once the story tells about the first, it doesn't have to tell about those who were made in the likeness of, it is a presupposition of more to follow. God knew that Adam and Eve couldn't live by themselves outside the Garden. Why wouldn't he make more to keep them company? Even if there were incest at that early time, the gene pool was still pure enough to allow healthy individuals. It was only later, when man began to set himself up as a ruler that he forbade sexual intercourse and incest because of the upsurging of deformations in newborns. Plus the fact, that the Ruler of that region would want to spread his progeny with as many fertile women as he could get. This stuff and idea is so old that we have forgotten the power anarchist had over the people. There is a lot more to it, but read some history books, especially the older ones written before the turn of the century. Peace, and God loves you, and want you in his family too. Email me if you want.
2007-09-26 13:20:19 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Conversions are for our lord as for these question.
(1) Misconceptions are often flowing like the rivers around the original garden our father & associates made. Try thinking of the garden as god's creation of the first Israelite/Jew - Adam - he was not the FIRST man but another attempt at a better man that would honor and obey our father, remember cain chose his wife from another tribe!
(2) After the great flood , about a year or two, people were of one toungue and decided to build a tower into the clouds - heavens - and in order to stop this god confused their nations and languages IE ... Read about the tower of Bable!
Hope this helps you in your understanding of these events.
2007-09-26 13:13:28 · answer #3 · answered by S.O.S. 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible isn't a history handbook, so don't think you will find the whole history about how human beings developed there. For that there is a lot of modern research you can read up on.
The early books of the Bible were written centuries later, and the writers didn't have the same means of history writing and research that we have today. I am a Christian, but I don't see the 'history' in Genesis as literal.
The Bible is in the first place about how God revealed himself to people through the ages. It won't give you the facts about how we developed.
2007-09-26 13:15:19 · answer #4 · answered by Amelie 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
A&E had many children - male and female. And obviously this is how the human family was started. Racial diversity is a result of GENETIC DIVERSITY.
Act 17:26 And God hath made of one blood all nations of men for to dwell on all the face of the earth, and hath determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of their habitation;
Act 17:27 That they should seek the Lord, if haply they might feel after him, and find him, though he be not far from every one of us:
Act 17:28 For in him we live, and move, and have our being; as certain also of your own poets have said, For we are also his offspring.
2007-09-26 13:05:28 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
The bible is what's suggested as "Faction" A fictional tale set in a actual time and place. hence the time, place and genuine historic characters are all superb however the fictitious characters and thoughts are actually not! there is not one single point out of Jesus in the full Roman checklist - it incredibly is powerful - not one! on an identical time as he grow to be meant to have been around there have been quite some Jews claiming to be the messiah - all of whom are nicely recorded! there is not a single modern checklist from any source or maybe the bible mentions of him like numerous different references weren't written till some years after his meant dying! He grow to be meant to have been a extensive concern to the Romans and produced surprising miracles yet nevertheless not one modern checklist? Even the bible mentions of him like numerous different references weren't written till some years after his meant dying! Pilate is recorded in the Roman checklist as a quite lack luster guy yet no point out of a Jesus, an ordeal or crucifixion that would easily have been used to make him seem brighter! At maximum suitable he grow to be an amalgam of those others yet very almost certainly in no way existed!
2016-10-20 02:15:45 · answer #6 · answered by yau 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you want the answers you have to read the whole Bible not just select part of it. It would take much to long to give you a theology lesson tonight :) There are scientific facts that support the Bible. However, if you choose to convert it will be by faith, because we will never understand everything. If you conversion is only as deep as your understanding you will not last long as a Christian. I pray you make the right choice.
2007-09-26 13:08:20 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says that God created 'Adam'. Adam is not the word that is used for 'man' as in mankind. So there could have been millions of people here on Earth for that matter. It simply does not tell us.
So incest is possible, other people on Earth is possible, other races already established is possible.
2007-09-26 13:14:35 · answer #8 · answered by Christian Sinner 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, although I don't think the bible is complete in telling the origin of humans.
The races came from the tower of Babel. God got pissed that they didn't trust his promise not to destroy the earth by flood again. So he confounded the languages and the people scattered thoughout the earth.
I don't care if you convert. I'd pray that you follow the direction that God lead you.
2007-09-26 13:09:15 · answer #9 · answered by jeff b 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
if you would read the Bible with your heart opened to the truth
and not in fear that it is only saying that you will go to h*ll
you will see that it is a guide or map showing the way home most people have such a fear of going to h*ll that they pretend that it doesn't exist
I can not argue or force you to seek the truth that is up to you if you follow this small piece of advice you will find the truth
"Seek ye first the Kingdom of Heaven" everything else will fall into place
2007-09-26 14:48:09 · answer #10 · answered by hmm 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋